Charlie

This is Charlie, a border collie with a very important job at Aronimink Golf Club, the site of this week's PGA tour. Charlie (a female by the way) is in charge of chasing geese and other wildlife from the course, which this week will see Tiger Woods play through.

This environmentally friendly critter control has apparently been very successful and is a big hit with the members. "She's just prepared to chase anything that moves," assistant superintendent Ben Little told the Philly Inquirer, that reported this story. "Never actually caught anything but she has fun with it."

Charlie's official job is to deter anything that might interfere with the golfers and that can include wildlife from geese, to hawks, to rabbits, deer, foxes and squirrels. Geese, of course, are the especially troublesome because of what they leave behind.

Since Charlie has been on the job (four years now), the geese have been deterred from leaving their footprints and other reminders of their presence on the golf course. And the best part: no geese are injured or harmed.

Charlie patrols during the evenings when golfers have left the course. Otherwise they might not find her footprints in their bunkers especially endearing. But they love what she leaves in her wake: no goose droppings.

Best part: Charlie couldn't be happier. As everyone knows, border collies "need" a job and she certainly has found the perfect one!